Sunday, November 21, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Blog Assignment 13
ALEX (Alabama Learning Exchange) seems like a great site. They provide you with lesson plans for all grades and all subjects. For new teachers needing ideas, this would be greatly helpful. I'm glad I found out about this site. In my high school French 3 class, I had to go to a feeder school and teach second graders French. Sometimes finding interesting activities was a rather difficult task for me though. I always enjoyed making the lesson plans but sometimes I would find the children wouldn't quite catch on to the games and activities. This site seems to have activities for any age group, which I simply think is fantastic!
ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide) also seems to be a great site. From what I read they seem to want to reach out to all learning environments. One of their pages I visited showed the curriculum of each class. For someone homeschooling this site could be utilized for a basis of what to do. I also found here that they are responsible for the curriculum and placement tests I took for AP courses in high school. ACCESS seems to try to reach everyone in a learning environment which is an amazing feat.
ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide) also seems to be a great site. From what I read they seem to want to reach out to all learning environments. One of their pages I visited showed the curriculum of each class. For someone homeschooling this site could be utilized for a basis of what to do. I also found here that they are responsible for the curriculum and placement tests I took for AP courses in high school. ACCESS seems to try to reach everyone in a learning environment which is an amazing feat.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Project #6
I was surprised to find that when given the option between rap, hip hop, country, and other music students chose other majority of the time. Most people also chose other when given the choice of a favorite color being red, black, or blue. Eighty one percent of people decided that their favorite pet was a dog and most said their favorite number was between one and twenty five. Majority of people said Dr. Seuss was their favorite childhood author and chose other when given the options of Facebook, Blogger, and Myspace for favorite site to visit online. Most people voted Alabama as their favorite SEC football team and heart as their favorite shape. When given the options of other, football, soccer, and baseball, people said their favorite sport was one other than the three named. I also found that most peoples' favorite hobby was something other than reading, browsing the internet, watching television, and sports. For the most part I was slightly surprised at the responses. I had sixteen people respond to my questionnaire.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Final Project Report
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| Ann(Right) and Me(Left) |
I. Topic: Educational Video Games: concentration on handhelds
II. Partner: Ann-Marie New
III. Objectives of our project:
-Introduce video games as an educational tool
-Characterize educational video games by brand, price, and academic merit
-Illustrate advantages of educational handheld video games
-Demonstrate the ability and willingness of students to utilize these tools
IV. Project Duties:
-Research educational handheld video games: brand, price, academic merit (Kirby and New)
-Record a student who has and regularly utilizes educational handheld video games (New)
-Record a student who regularly plays non-academic based handheld video games (New)
-Spreadsheet of educational handhelds, prices, age group, curriculum, and features (Kirby)
Blog Assignment 12
I am assigned, this week, to give a blog assignment we should have been assigned and to do it myself.
Watch the video The Sound of Learning: Albano Berberi and, in your blog, post what you thought of the video and how technology has assisted Albano. Also consider any other methods of technology that could be useful for physically handicapped students, including deaf, mute, amputees, and any other handicap and feel free to look for similar posts and share.
I, personally, enjoyed the video. New technologies such as computer audio programs have assisted Albano with being able to participate in classroom assignments. Braille books and keyboards have also been helpful in Mr. Berberi's learning environment. Other handicaps, such as being hearing impaired, also have technical innovations to assist with learning. Ann-Marie New also speaks of the physically handicapped in her Blog Post # 12. She addresses hearing impaired students and the technology useful in the classroom for them.
Watch the video The Sound of Learning: Albano Berberi and, in your blog, post what you thought of the video and how technology has assisted Albano. Also consider any other methods of technology that could be useful for physically handicapped students, including deaf, mute, amputees, and any other handicap and feel free to look for similar posts and share.
I, personally, enjoyed the video. New technologies such as computer audio programs have assisted Albano with being able to participate in classroom assignments. Braille books and keyboards have also been helpful in Mr. Berberi's learning environment. Other handicaps, such as being hearing impaired, also have technical innovations to assist with learning. Ann-Marie New also speaks of the physically handicapped in her Blog Post # 12. She addresses hearing impaired students and the technology useful in the classroom for them.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Summary Post C4T Teacher #3
My third assignment for C4T was Arvind S. Grover. His post was about a colleague of his sent him a quote by Hiam Ginott. Because it had such a great, valid point here is the quote:
"I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. My personal approach creates the climate. My daily mood makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate, humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or deescalated, a child humanized or dehumanized."
-Hiam Ginott
I thanked Mr. Grover for sharing and told him I thought the concept of the quote was nice and it really made me think. I told him, also, that I hoped I could think on this everyday before walking into a classroom. He responded back that he thinks we as teachers should always be cognizant of how contagious our attitude toward others' is. I replied I completely agreed and thanked him again.
"I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. My personal approach creates the climate. My daily mood makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate, humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or deescalated, a child humanized or dehumanized."
-Hiam Ginott
I thanked Mr. Grover for sharing and told him I thought the concept of the quote was nice and it really made me think. I told him, also, that I hoped I could think on this everyday before walking into a classroom. He responded back that he thinks we as teachers should always be cognizant of how contagious our attitude toward others' is. I replied I completely agreed and thanked him again.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Blog Assignment 11
FIRST GRADERS IN MS. CASSIDY'S CLASS
I was honestly very surprised by this video. I never thought I'd see the day first graders were blogging and had wikis. I think this is a good thing of course as long as the teacher monitors which sites the students are visiting, They seem to be learning manners as they know to be nice to others and they also seem to be learning how to be safe with the internet and technologically savvy. Through their blogging they are learning better writing skills and they seem to be accepting the fact that they will always be learning new things and growing in their technological experience. I would love to use blogging in my classroom as well. It would allow for students to not only form an opinion and learn, but to also see what others are thinking. They would learn how to be safe on the internet. I would also like to have a classroom webpage like Ms. Cassidy did. As previously mentioned, it would allow the students' parents to be more involved.
I was honestly very surprised by this video. I never thought I'd see the day first graders were blogging and had wikis. I think this is a good thing of course as long as the teacher monitors which sites the students are visiting, They seem to be learning manners as they know to be nice to others and they also seem to be learning how to be safe with the internet and technologically savvy. Through their blogging they are learning better writing skills and they seem to be accepting the fact that they will always be learning new things and growing in their technological experience. I would love to use blogging in my classroom as well. It would allow for students to not only form an opinion and learn, but to also see what others are thinking. They would learn how to be safe on the internet. I would also like to have a classroom webpage like Ms. Cassidy did. As previously mentioned, it would allow the students' parents to be more involved.
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